OK! Thank you for the explanations. But raising this case, what is the parameter to be controlled? And compared to the controls I mentioned above which of the two actually fit the occupation of RAM ? 2011/4/8 Stan Hoeppner <s...@hardwarefreak.com>
> Fabio DellaCorte put forth on 4/8/2011 12:13 PM: > > root@debian-cq2:/etc/pandora# free -m > > total used free shared buffers cached > > Mem: 8006 790 7215 0 210 208 > > -/+ buffers/cache: 371 7634 > > Swap: 22883 2 22881 > > You have 7GB+ free out of 8GB. And you're concerned with memory usage? > LOL > > Why do you have 20GB of swap? Given your memory usage, assuming the > above is "typical", and the fact you have 8GB RAM, I'm going to guess > you could likely get by with no swap device at all. > > You have nothing to worry about. Unless of course this is an "idle" > state, and you run some gargantuan simulation app that eats all 8GB when > launched. I doubt that's the case, as you'd not be asking this question > if you used such an app. > > >From what you've provided, you don't need to worry about memory. > > -- > Stan > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4d9f5138.7000...@hardwarefreak.com > >